📜 Henning's scrolls of wisdom 📜

Preface

After looting collecting wisdom from the internet in hundreds of browser tabs and bookmarks over the last years, I chose to slowly work through them and either share them in this place in an opinionated and maybe curated manner (or delete them).

R

• For useRs, the origin of everything is CRAN.

• Or RStudio PBC.

• Shiny Developer Series podcasts (and occasional live streams).

• Rocker provides docker images for R.

• rseek is the best way to search R-related content. Downside: it is a Google front-end.
  DuckDuckGo offers the "bang" !rseek...

• Microsoft (which acquired Revolutions in 2015) hosts

  • Revolutions Blog

  • MRAN, including

    • CRAN time machine

    • Microsoft R Open

• Read The R Inferno to learn about R's gotchas. 🤓

• Awesome R list of packages and tools

My opinionated list of R packages

• tidyverse meta-package, notorious components are

  • magrittr pipe operator %>% (I think I could not live with it anymore 😁)
  • dplyr data transformations
  • tidyr data cleaning and transformations
  • purrr functional programming
  • ggplot2 graphs 💹

• R infrastructure

  • rlang programming on the language 🤓
  • much more...

• renv - freeze package versions for reproducibility on project-level.

• checkpoint - use MRAN's CRAN time machine to freeze package versions.

• Want to play with SQL? RSQLite!

• here - robust handling of relative paths.

• The famous rmarkdown: embed R code in markdown syntax ➡️ .Rmd and there you go (reports, documentation, etc.)

News

• R posts you might have missed!

• RWeekly.org

• R-Bloggers

💡 Is there a shiny app that aggregates these three news feeds into a single stream? 💡

Linux 🐧

• My ❤️ top 2 linux distros (yes, this document is opinionated):

  • Ubuntu

  • Debian

News 📰

• OMG! ubuntu!

• DistroWatch

• OSnews

• heise online - in German

Apps

Next-generation packaging

No more hassles with 'tarballs', RPM vs. DEB and unresolved dependencies.
No more from source configure and make installs.

• FlatHub

• SnapCraft Store

• AppImage

Git

• GitExtensions - an awesome git client
• Oh my GIT - a text adventure which teaches you git (also on github)

GitHub

• emojis.ninja for the emoji ninja 🤓

Tools

• Firefox - my preferred browser for over a decade... \ useful add-ons:

  • Simple Tab Groups
  • I don't care about cookies
  • Firefox Multi-Account Containers

• Greenshot - sophisticated screen shots

• Double Commander - traditional file manager

• 7-Zip - high compression ratio file archiver

• Aptitude - APT-based software management for Ubuntu and Debian linux

Misc.

• /.org - for historical reasons, used read it regularly in my early 20s

Need to kill time?

• FreeCol

Nostalgia

• Icaros lets you travel to an alternate timeline: the OS and speed you always wanted on your 1993 Amiga :smile: